Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9642#issuecomment-157147813
The original behavior of these classes was to throw if you tried to
retrieve a null primitive value and I think thats a lot less confusing.
Unfortunately it seems that the tungsten refactoring changed this behavior, but
since it was the original behavior I'm in favor of returning to it.
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